Blog Update 21 May 2016

Blog Update 21 May 2016

Another heart transplant clinic done and dusted. Some are uneventful but most recently have been like a U2 tribute show. The hits just keep on coming lol.

Apparently my liver has decided to join my heart, lung and kidney party which is surprising given I never invited it, but we will keep an eye on it. I can't have general anaesthetic unless it’s an emergency due to my lungs and apnoea which is a bugger given I do need an op to fix an abdominal hernia which is a source of constant pain. The specialist reiterated that my heart and lungs are stuffed and there is nothing they can do.

On the up side she finally relented and will put me into Cairns Base Hospital cardiac unit as she can't fly me to Brisbane due to me having to cart oxygen all over the place. This as some of you will already know is an outcome I have been trying to make happen for over 2 years now. It was particularly amusing when she put it to me as a proposal that she had come up with and asked me what I think. Can you imagine the look on my face as I reminded her for the umpteenth time that I had been asking for this for over 2 years? In any case I kept the peace as this was the outcome I was looking for.

I have a number of procedures coming up that I would normally have a general anaesthetic for, so what alternatives we use and what gets cancelled should be interesting.

Will be coming out of retirement in the next few weeks and writing a story on the lack of disability parking in the right places where I live here in Far North Queensland after a young journo got it completely wrong in a local News Limited paper. Unfortunately the journo showed me nothing but contempt by going on holidays without contacting me after I offered to help him and also correct the quite awful article he had written. Those of you that know me personally know how I deal with those that treat me with contempt. This should be fun. The written word is a powerful thing.

I’ll just keep battling as I always have and keep trying to get the things done that I want to get done before the end comes. As long as I can still drive and I have a computer, recording device and a camera I shall continue.

Take care luv yas all, well some of you lol

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